GRAS

[gras]

1. generally recognized as safe: a status label assigned by the FDA to a listing of substances GRAS list not known to be hazardous to health and thus approved for use in foods.

Word History and Origins

Origin of GRAS¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

They called it Mecca, and every week, they came to the same stretch of levee next to an abandoned warehouse where Mardi Gras floats were once built.

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He fell in love with the city when he attended Mardi Gras in 1972 with some friends from college, he said.

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“No, seriously, it all started in 1972. I came down for Mardi Gras with a group of Sig Eps from Missouri—I went to what’s now called Missouri State. I just flipped for the city, and I’m too lazy to define what it is, exactly. After that, every time I’d get a couple of bucks, I’d go down.”

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For decades, Wylie Dufresne worked at the cutting edge of haute cuisine, dreaming up high-concept dishes like deconstructed eggs Benedict or cubes of aerated foie gras.

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Groves was convicted of second degree murder in October 2024 after he fired an assault rifle into a Mardi Gras block party, killing two adults, CBS reported.

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